Frugal Living for Dummies®: Practical ideas to help you spend less, save more, and live well

Frugal Living for Dummies®: Practical ideas to help you spend less, save more, and live well.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrr … it’s cold inside!

Hooray! Power’s on and the Internet’s back and the ice is melting! ♥

My family has really never had the desire to go snow camping … but I felt like we got to experience a bit of it the past two days. Power out. No heat (brrrrrrr). Ice and snow everywhere. Cooking meals on the campstove in the carport. We sat around the dark cold livingroom last night and told stupid stories and snuggled with warm cats. Brrrrr … still chilly in the house but at least it’s in the process of warming up!

I wanted to treat everyone to a pizza delivery tonight after our two days of no power / no heat … but the power’s still out at the local pizza delivery so they’re not open yet. Boo hoo …

I ♥ my down comforter! At least I was warm in bed last night although the rest of house was icy cold!

History Repeats Itself?

How very weird.  Wordpress just randomly published a post from two years ago to the front page of my blog.  I didn’t even realize it’d happened until I saw a Twitter post show up on my Facebook page about it.

Interesting that the post actually could be from today.  The job hunt goes on.  I’m refocusing a bit to work on non-traditional types of things like books, etc. for income.  Essentially what that other post was about, too.

Is someone trying to tell me something?  :-)

Turkey Meatloaf (gluten-free)

Love that my oldest daughter, Kelsey, started a food blog for keeping track of her attempts at gluten-free, sugar-free cooking.  I get to eat the experiments!  :-)

This will be tomorrow’s dinner:  Turkey Meatloaf (gluten-free).

Super Quick Update

Finally finished with the dentist for this go-around.  It has NOT been fun.  Or cheap.  Or pain-free.  But at least it’s done!  Hooray! He still needs to do another crown but since it’s not an emergency, I’m going to wait a bit.

Seasonal job at REI ended last week and I’ve spent this week feeling really run down.  Today a fever seems to have set in, so I’m just laying low and hoping to avoid the flu that’s going around.

Hopefully very soon I’ll find another part-time or full-time job to hold me over while I try to figure out whether or not continuing school is going to be an option financially.

So much of my life’s in flux right now.  My main priorities are keeping a roof over our heads, the lights on, and food in the fridge.  Prayers and good thoughts appreciated!  :-)

Make-Ahead Holiday Breakfast Casserole

Make-Ahead Holiday Breakfast Casserole.

Be flexible with your holiday plans …

Simple Christmas Tip for Today:  Be flexible with your expectations for the holidays …things can change suddenly and drastically sometimes.

This holiday season sure took a turn on me. Just came home from the dentist and my crown ended up costing more than they’d thought (more work needed to be done than originally thought) plus I need another crown ASAP … so all the money I was going to use for Christmas gifts for my kiddos just went into my mouth.

Ugh.

Talk about your “simple” Christmas … we even have to cancel our traditional Christmas Eve dinner plans at the local restaurant and there won’t be anything under the tree now either.

I want to say “bah humbug” but that just doesn’t even feel adequate to express what I’m feeling/thinking right now.

Plus to top it all off, it looks like I’m going to have to put off finishing school in favor of just working full-time. This “displaced homemaker returning college student” thing isn’t working out financially at all. 

Okay, that’s enough griping from me — at least I’m feeling a bit healthier and hope to put the tree up later today. At least that’s something.